EAST INDIA COMPANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East India Company mean? 

• EAST INDIA COMPANY (noun)
  The noun EAST INDIA COMPANY has 1 sense:

1. an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny

  Familiarity information: EAST INDIA COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST INDIA COMPANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("East India Company" is a kind of...):

company (an institution created to conduct business)

 Context examples 

I have to go up to town in any case, for there is a poor devil of an East India Company’s officer who has written to me in his distress.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)